Simply put, the Lindy Effect states:
The longer an idea has lasted
The greater likelihood it will continue to last.
By understanding the Lindy Effect
We can identify time-tested methods for:
1. Living Longer
2. Building Wealth
3. Increasing Happiness
Here're 13 Lindy-backed ideas for living a long, healthy, fulfilling life:
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1. Create a Routine
Highly effective people have created and executed daily routines for decades.
Take Benjamin Franklin for example...
(his daily routine in the photo)
If you want to be successful, create a daily routine and follow it religiously.
2. Squat, Deadlift, & Press
Humans have been squatting, deadlifting, and pressing since our existence:
• Squatting to pick something up
• Lifting a child from the ground
• Pressing something overhead
If you want to live longer, start completing basic, functional movements.
3. Eat Healthy Oils & Fats
Humans have been eating butter, tallow, and olive oil for years.
If you want to live longer, eat healthy fats that have been around for thousands of years!
Rather than chemically refined seed oils, like canola oil.
These oils have been linked to widespread health and environmental issues.
Yet, they're in everything we eat.
(a thread on this later)
4. Eat Local Produce & Meats
Our ancestors only ate what they grew, raised, caught, & sometimes traded for.
If you want to optimize your health, eat locally sourced foods
Rather than foods imported thousands of miles away.
I recently joined a CSA (community-supported agriculture)
• 1x per week we get 24 organic, pasture-raised eggs
• Every other week, we get a massive bag of local produce
It's been the best investment we've made in a while.
5. Eat (Real) Food
There's a trend towards eating lab-developed protein
These products are packed with "Expeller-Pressed Canola Oil"
We weren't meant to consume highly-processed, lab-developed, garbage.
Eat the real thing, or don't eat it at all.
6. Diversify Your Investments
Wealthy people have diversified their investments for thousands of years.
If you want to build wealth, diversify your investments among stocks, bonds, cash, crypto, real estate, etc.
Rather than investing in one asset class.
7. Drink Tea & Coffee
Humans have been getting energy from tea & coffee for centuries...
• Tea since 200 BC
• Coffee since the 1500s
If you want to optimize your health, drink tea & coffee for energy
Rather than sugar-packed energy drinks or energy alternatives.
8. Read Old Books
The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith...
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius...
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin...
These books have been around for decades!
If you want to get smarter, read books that have stood the test of time.
9. Intermittent Fast
Humans have been intermittently fasting for centuries!
Our ancestors didn't have on-demand food as we do.
They often lived in a fasted state
Reaping the many rewards of fasting.
If you want to live longer, consider experimenting with fasting.
For 2 years, I was a hardcore intermittent faster.
But then I realized that my digestion was all messed up.
I spoke with an expert about it and this is what he recommended:
3 to 4, 20hr fasts per week.
Ever since I started doing that, my digestion has improved significantly.
10. Eat Healthy Carbs
Humans have been eating rice, wheat, oats, corn, and potatoes for centuries.
If you want to improve your health, focus on eating healthy carbs.
(in moderation)
Rather than ultra-processed junk produced by "Big Food".
11. Work Like a Lion
We live in a capitalistic world that primarily rewards people based on their time spent working.
But that's not how we were designed to work.
Humans weren't meant to work like cows; grazing grass for 40 hrs/week.
We were designed to work like lions; chasing down prey for hours or days and then resting.
Work in sprints and take educated risks.
It's the most efficient, effective, and fulfilling way to work.
12. Follow a Consistent Sleep Schedule
Our bodies look to the sunrise and sunset to keep our circadian rhythms aligned.
We weren't meant to wake up before the sun goes up or go to bed after the sun has gone down!
Technology enables us to work 24/7...
But that's not what our bodies want.
Our bodies need high-quality sleep.
Aim to wake and sleep with the sunrise and sunset.
13. Walk
Developments in transportation have made humans far too sedentary.
We weren't meant to be able to have the luxury of ubering everywhere.
We were designed to use our legs to get places.
If you have the luxury of walking to your destination, walk.
These are 13 ways to improve your life with Lindy-backed ideas.
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